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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Sorta ... they went out and they got a winger and then they played him at centre. Jarnkrok hadn't regularly played down the middle since 2018ish.
I'm not trying to relitigate the Jarnkrok trade, it looked fine at the time in isolation — it's just part of a larger trend of the Flames giving up a lot of draft capital for mid-rotation forwards.
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Yeah, and I don't disagree with that. Though, mid-rotation guys are what you're going to get at the deadline. For me, the problem is that the Flames buy at the deadline too often, they need to be a little more discriminating. I was fine with it last year, but it shouldn't be done every year (unless you're on a Tampa-like run)